Abstract

ENGLISH:

The present study aims to examine turn-taking strategies used by Donald Trump’s town hall interview in the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. It is to show the process of turn-taking strategies when Donald Trump takes his turn. Further, the interview is formed in the form of question and answer which can be looked how the participants manage and take to exchange of speaking turn in interaction.

The data is collected by downloading the video in You Tube. It is presented in the form of conversation using Jefferson’s transcription symbol. After finding the data, the data is analyzed by selecting and dividing into some excerpts based on kinds of turn-taking strategies used by Donald Trump. Then, the data is described and explained comprehensively based on Stanstrom’s theory. Stenstrom shows the theory of turn-taking strategies which is divided into taking the turn strategy, holding the turn strategy, and yielding the turn strategy. Methodologically, the researcher adopts descriptive qualitative method as the research design and uses the researcher herself as the key main instrument.

This study reveals that turn-taking strategies are applied and used by Donald Trump in the political interview with Chris Matthew. Kinds of turn-taking strategies used by Donald Trump’s interview show some contradictions with the theory. For instance, this research discovers that Trump uses hesitant start when he has trouble to start his answer while Stenstrom said that starting up is used to someone who initiates to talk first and made the environment from silence to speak, Trump interrupts Matthew without using interrogative or imperative signal as what Stanstrom said, Trump uses giving up when he is interrupted by Matthew while Stenstrom said that giving up occurs when the speaker realizes that he has no more to say, and Trump uses backchannel signal which does not include as turn-taking strategies by Stenstrom. Therefore, although there are some contradictions with the theory, the flow of this political interview becomes more interesting and attractive interview.